Thursday, 9 November 2017

This is another nymph pattern that spin off from the Jiggling Damsel that tie few years back... instead of using velvet rope as the abdomen, this pattern put in a wire shank to build the abdomen. weight it at the hook with lead wire and a small bead-chain.... suggest to make it slightly heavy as I would like it to bounce at the bottom with the hook point up. You can play with darker chenille colour to create giant stonefly nymph in dark olive, grey of dark brown.. or even try in chartreuse colour too.

you can also make the abdomen wider so it looks like a dragonfly nymph...

I always like to put in a hot spot ( orange colour ) to attract more attention

Material List:

Jig Hook

Scud back

Semperfli Micro Suede Chennile

UV dubbing

SLF dubbing

Goose and turkey biot

Pheasant tail fibers

lead wire and black bead-chain

hard wire, 12lbs Mono line and markers

Deer Creek UV resin hard

3M surgical tape

Picture step by step tying instruction:

Part 1 of the tutorial - building the abdomen

Prepare the hard wire shank

Use 3M surgical tape to create the taper profile of the abdomen

Now tie in the Scud back at the end of the wire

Put in the hot spot

Tie in the Micro Suede Chenille

Tie in a pair of Goose biots

Wind in the chenille

Tie down the materials

Trim the materials

Colour the chenille

some finished abdomen and the materials

Now part 2 of the tutorial..

Put in the jig hook slanted

Tie in the 12lbs mono line

Now remove the hook and put in the abdomen thru the hook and mono line

tie down the mono line and create a small loop... this step is to secure the abdomen

Turn the hook over, wind in some lead wire and then cover it with 3M surgical tape, flatten the wire ( the surgical tape will hold the lead wire )

Thursday, 19 October 2017

Evolved from the Tube Snowrunner Baitfish pattern, here I try a fully synthetic baitfish pattern tie almost all with Deer Creek Glist and Glint fibers... on a Gamakatsu SL12S saltwater big game fly hook for Sailfish and large predator fish.

Picture of my friend Agung Syakirul from Indonesia landed a nice sailfish with the 6/0 GnG Sardines pattern on his 1st day fishing in Rompin.

Material list:

Deer Creek Glist n Glint - white, light grren, aqua and black

Deer Creek Mega Lazer Dub

Deer Creel Baitfish fibers

Palm Chennile

Large Lateral line

UV shiner

3D epoxy eye

Diamond Fine Flex resin

Epoxy and markers

Picture step by step tying instruction:

Prepare the thread base on the hook

Tie and wind in sime palm chenille about 1/3 of the shank

Take some white GnG fiber, tie in below the palm chenille

Tie in the white GnG on top of the Palm chenille

Add in some UV shiner

Tie in the light green GnG

Tie in the Aqua GnG and also some white below

Tie in the black GnG

Now tie in the Lateral line

Tie in some DC white or light grey Baitfish fibers

cover the top portion also with black DC Baitfish fibers. If you prefer a smaller head profile, you can actually end here and put in eye

I prefer a wider head profile for pushing more water, so I tie in some DC Mega Lazer Dub

Fold the Lazer dubbing over and brush it evenly

Colour the head ( Lazer Dub )

use Diamonf Fine Flex UV resin, coat a very thin coat on the head to keep the head profile